Upcoming Event: Kessler Conversation with Prof. Erik Heinrichs


Don’t forget to register for next week’s installment of this fall’s Kessler Conversation series on disease, healing, and pastoral care in the 16th century! The second Kessler Conversation will be with Professor Erik Heinrichs, Associate Professor of History at Winona State University. Professor Heinrichs is a historian of medieval and early modern Europe, with research interests in medical and cultural responses to plagues, particularly in German-speaking lands. He is the author of Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473-1573 (Routledge, 2018). The Kessler Conversation with Professor Heinrichs, entitled “Plague in the Reformation Era,” will be livestreamed at noon Eastern on Wednesday, October 7th. Registration is free at pitts.emory.edu/erikheinrichs.

In addition, don’t miss the live streamed Reformation Day Worship Service led by Bishop Leila M. Ortiz of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod of the ELCA. View details and sign up for free at pitts.emory.edu/reformationday.

 

Announcing Kessler Conversations 2020

We are excited to launch the Kessler Conversations at Pitts Theology Library this fall. This is a series of online interviews with leading church historians and theologians, asking this question, “What relevance do the events, personalities, and texts of the Protestant Reformation hold for contemporary communities?” On the first Wednesday of each month this Fall, these online, 30-45 minute conversations will offer opportunities for the general public to learn about the events in Europe the 16th century and to consider what they tell us about the issues facing our communities. Conversations each semester will focus on a single contemporary theme and trace it back to the Reformers. This Fall, the Kessler Conversations focus on disease, healing, and pastoral care in the 16th century.

Our September conversation will be with Professor Anna M. Johnson, Associate Professor of Reformation Church History at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Professor Johnson’s research explores religious practice in the German Reformation. She is the author of Beyond Indulgences: Luther’s Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518-1520 (Truman State University Press, 2017), and she recently wrote the introduction and annotations to Luther’s “Whether One Should Flee the Deadly Plague” for The Annotated Luther (Fortress Press, 2016). The Kessler Conversation with Professor Johnson, entitled “Christian Ethics in Times of Plague,” will be live-streamed at noon Eastern on Wednesday, September 2nd. Registration is free at pitts.emory.edu/annajohnson!

Find more information on future sessions at pitts.emory.edu/reformationday, and feel free to share the flyer below to spread the word! We look forward seeing you there. 

Reformation Day Registration

The 32nd annual Reformation Day at Emory will be held next week on Tuesday, October 29th. This year’s program explores the theme “The Story of Our Books: Producing, Collecting, and Owning Books of the 16th Century.” 

Currently, registration is full for the morning presentations and lunch in Convocation Hall. However, interested participants are invited to attend the afternoon panel presentations in the sanctuary of Cannon Chapel for free without registration. These sessions run from 1:30–4:30pm and include talks by Professor Nick Wilding (Georgia State University), Ms. Caroline Duroselle-Melish (The Folger Shakespeare Library), and Professor Ulrich Bubenheimer (University of Heidelberg).

For questions, please contact Anne Marie McLean at Pitts Theology Library.